New Year cookies
Description
Homemade baked treats for tea. To make "Cockerels" cookies, you'll definitely need special cockerel-shaped cookie cutters, which can be purchased at any specialty store. Otherwise, the process is just like making regular cookies. We'll decorate them with homemade icing. Let's get started.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the dough. To do this, mix all the dry ingredients: sugar, flour, and baking soda. Stir and make a small well.
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Step 2
Add 1 egg yolk (reserve the egg white in a clean, dry bowl, as we'll need it for the glaze) and cut the chilled butter into small pieces. By the way, you can also grate the butter on a coarse grater—this will make mixing the dough easier and faster.
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Step 3
Mix everything thoroughly as quickly as possible and with as few movements as possible, so that the butter does not melt and run. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 15–20 minutes.
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Step 4
Then roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm and cut out cookies using a rooster-shaped cutter or a knife with a paper stencil. Transfer the cookies onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and place in a preheated oven at 180°C for 12–15 minutes. Keep an eye on them from time to time to prevent burning, as ovens may bake differently.
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Step 5
For the glaze, mix the egg white with powdered sugar, add citric acid, first stir with a fork, then beat with a mixer until white.
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Step 6
After that, add 1.5 tablespoons of starch and mix with a spoon. The glaze has become thicker, but not too thick—it's still slightly runny and flows well off the spoon. This is exactly the consistency we need for the glaze.
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Step 7
Divide the icing into 3 bowls. Add pink food coloring to one, blue to the second, and leave the third white. To the white icing, add another ½ tablespoon of starch to make it thicker and more opaque.
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Step 8
Place the icing into piping bags. Make small holes. On the finished cookies, first create a border with white icing and let it dry for 15 minutes, then decorate the cookies as desired.
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Step 9
Leave the finished cookies in a warm place for 2–6 hours to dry the glaze. Make sure your family members don't eat them earlier :)